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such as food, healthcare services, housing and clean water - is called poverty. At face value, whether or not a person is poor is related to how much he or she can e¿rn and the resources he or she has access to. Being deprived of basic necessities is an obvious manifestation of poverty. Arlicle 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that every human being is entitled to a standard of livingthat is adequate for his or her health and well-being. lt is therefore clear that all people have the right to resources that are adequate for maintaining their daily lives, physically, mentally and psychologically.

Yet, living in poverty means more than just not having sufficient resources at one's disposal. lt also means being excluded from decisions about how those resources are allocated. Poverty also means lack of access to information and channels to reflect one's opinions to those who have the power to make decisions. We have recently seen a number of examples of this in Hong Kong, such as the demolition of old local communities like Sham Shui Po in the name of urban redevelooment and in the interests of multi-milliondollar property companies. Residents who have spent their lives in those communities find their voices are not being heard and their opinions about such redevelopment are being ignored. The amounts of compensation they are awarded are arbitrarily decided by the government, and they are also being forced to relocate to areas where they are deprived of the social networks they have built up and relied on throughout their lives. Sadly, relocation does not necessarily improve their standard of living. A number of other urban redevelopment projects are also taking place in old but socially and economically vibrant communities, such as Kwun Tong, without the voices of their residents being heard and without their participation. Patterns of powerlessness and marginalisation are perpetuated by this kind of exclusion from decision-making processes. They create the types of situations that sustain and institutionalise poverty.

Last December, the UN General Assembly adopted the

0ptional Protocol to the lnternational Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The 0ptional Protocol provides for access to justice at an international level, if it is denied at national level, for those who suffer from systemic violations of their social and economic rights, such as education, healthcare and housing. Up until September 2009,20 states had ratified the Optional Protocol. Amnesty lnternational believes that access to justice is an essential right of all victims of human rights violations. Recognising that violations of social, economic and cultural rights are violations of human rights is one step forward towards the fulfilment of what is enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Amnesty lnternational will therefore continue to call on states to ratify the Optional Protocol and to provide remedies to those whose rights are violated.

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SIX GAMBIAN IflURNALISTS RELEASEtl

Six Gambian journalists who had been imprisoned for defamation and sedition were released on a presidential pardon on 3 September. The six journalists were arrested on 15 June 2009 after publishing a Press Union statement that critrcised President Yayha Jammeh for "inappropriate" comments made on state

television about the unsolved 2004 murder of Point Editor Deyda Hydara. Repression of the media has a long history in The Gambia. The lack of independence of the judiciary in cases involving journalists and human rights defenders is also increasing, Amnesty lnternational and other civil society groups across Africa, have organized to protest against continuing human rights violations in The Gambia on 22 July, 2009, including repression of the media.

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2006. The judge's decision to release Jacinta was inevitable due to lack of evidence against her. Amnesty lnternational has also called for a full and imoartial review of the investigation, including the case against co-defendants Alberta Alcantara and Teresa Gonzalez, who were also convicted of kidnapping of the six federal agents along with Jacinta.

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The first meeting was held at the AIHK office in Jordan in late September. Even so, it already unites young people from various schools and social backgrounds who share a common vision of making social changes happen through human rights activism.

The Hong Kong network has been working together with other members from across the Asia Pacific on the Demand Dignity campaign for 2OO9-2010. This advocates the importance of raising public awareness about the notion of "dignity" as the basis of human rights.

To kick off the campaign in Hong Kong, the APYN staged its first-ever event here "Capture Dignity" on 27 September, Members gathered in different areas of Kowloon and tried to use their cameras to caoture various images of "dignity". After exploring the city's busy streets for two hours, they gathered to share their photos at the Jordan office. These covered a wide range of subjects, including scenes of poverty and culture, ordinary pedestrians, even street signs.

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approaches, such as peer support groups, capacity building, active participation and vocal activism.

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The APYN workshop was a very rewarding and encouraging experience. Not only were we able

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World Habitat Day: African governments must end forced evictions Governments in Africa must end the practice of forced evictions which leave hundreds of thousands homeless every year, Amnesty lnternational said on World Habitat Day, 5 October.

Most of these are conducted without due process, consultation, adequate notice or compensation; and the officials who carry them out often use excessive force against the residents.

"lt is completely unacceptable that governments across Africa continue to act in violation of regional and international law, including the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights," said Erwin van der Borght, Amnesty lnternational's Africa Programme Director.

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äEÐÆãi+ "Governments have a responsibility to ensure that no further forced evictions take place in Africa, and that victims of forced evictions receive adeouate alternative housing and access to effective remedies."

Amnesty lnternational has documented cases of forced evictions in Angola, Chad, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Sudan, Swaziland and Zimbabwe. Their effects can be catastrophic, particularly for people who are already living in poverty.

"Forced evictions result not only in people losing their homes and personal possessions. Afterwards, they may no longer be able to access clean water, food, sanitation, work, health and education," van der Borght noted.

ln Angola, around 3,000 families were forcibly evicted from their homes in the adjoining neighbourhoods of lraque and Bagdad in the country's capital Luanda between 20 and 26 July. Their homes were demolished, their possessions destroyed, and they were left without shelter.

Since February 2OO8, tens of thousands of people have been made homeless after being forcibly evicted from their homes in N'Djamena, the capital of Chad. Houses and other structures have been demolished in several neighbourhoods. Homes were still being demolished in late July 2OO9, and more people are at risk of being forcibly evicted.

ln Kenya, approximately 3,000 people were forcibly evicted from their homes in Githogoro village, in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, during July 2009. The evictions were carried out without adequate notice or any consultation with those affected. Many were left without shelter; some were forced to live in the rubble of their former homes, without access to clean water, sanitation or healthcare.

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Many of them are claiming that the state government's consultation on the olanned evictions was not adeq uate.

People from all over the African continent were planning to stage World Habitat Day protests to condemn the mass forced evictions being carried out by governments.

Survivors of mass forced evictions, residents of

informal settlements and Amnesty lnternational supporters in Burkina Faso, Cote d'lvoire, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, Togo and Zimbabwe intended to speak out with one voice against forcible evictions in Africa on 5 October, Amnesty lnternational members in Austria, Canada, Finland, lceland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the UK and the US were also preparing to engage in simultaneous campaigning activities in solidarity with them.

"The mobilisation of people from all over Africa in defiance of the hugely destructive practice of mass forced evictions carried out by governments continent wide was a wake uo call to African leaders." said van der Borght.

"People will not stand by while their homes are illegally destroyed by their government."

As part of its Demand Dignity campaign Amnesty lnternational is calling on governments in Africa to adopt guidelines for evictions that are based on the UN Basic Principles and Guidelines on DevelopmentBased Evictions and Displacement, and which comply

with international human rights law. ln Nigeria, the government of Rivers State began forcibly evicting thousands of people to make way for a cinema complex in August 2OO9. They have been T4

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Thousands of people in many countries marked the 10

October as the seventh "World Day Against the Death Penalty" by calling for a world without executions.

As a member of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, AIHK joined hands with the Joint Committee for the Abolition of the Death Penaltv to raise awareness and to working towards the univ-ersal abolition of the death penalty.

More than 300 postcards were collected to urge the Japanese government to stop executions of mentally-ill prisoners. Supporters also posed for photos to oppose the death penalty. Both organisations displayed panels

to inform the oublic about the latest information concerning the death penalty worldwide. ln addition, AIHK organised a short ceremony to symbolise a world without the death penalty. Students impersonated prisoners on death row being hanged, and subsequently released their nooses to symbolise the right to life, and the right not to be subjected to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or oun ishment.

As Campaign Manager Clara Law commented: "The death penalty may appear to be a very distant subject in Hong Kong. Yet, China continues to hold the world record for the greatest number of executions, ln fact, Hong Kong people are executed in China from time to time. We cannot stand by and do nothing. The many postcards and signatures we collected reflect the fact that a lot of people in our community care deeply about those lar away who are subjected to cruel treatment and who lose their right to live".

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The dignity of journalists has been violated or disregarded on countless occasions. One of the most

pleaded that she had acted in self-defense, were tailed by town government officials.

Beatings of journalists reflect whether or not press freedom and the dignity of journalists carrying out their work are being respected by law enforcement officials, government agents, security guards and investigators.

Their attitudes and words also reveal their perception on press freedom.

Social unrest resulting from ethnic disharmony broke out in Xinjiang on July 5. Two Hong Kong journalists were abruptly detained by the police when they arrived in the region on the following day. One of them, a cameraman, was attacked by two law enforcement officers. When he showed them his work permit, one of them said: "So what if you're a journalist? I can still beat you!"

memorable of these occurred on September 5, 2009, when three Hong Kong journalists were physically abused by the police when they were reporting in Xinjiang. A video clip showing this was posted on the lnternet, and it provoked a strong reaction among the Hong Kong public. However, this case was only the tip of the iceberg. Cases of journalists being attacked are not confined to China, and they are not limited to journalists from Hong Kong. Journalists of other ethnicities are also being abused in similar ways around the world. For example, an lraqi journalist was assaulted by law enforcement officials in early October, while he was reporting about a murder.

ln December 2008, four mainland journalists were investigating a case in which a law enforcement official had beaten a youth to death in Harbin. One of them was taken to a police station. When the other three followed him to find out what was going on, the police asked to check their lD cards and they refused, then a law enforcement official barked at them: "You look like suspects. Check theml"

Records show that journalists are often maltreated Ă­n places where the principle of the freedom of the press is not upheld. China is one of the countries where journalists are often treated rudely, even brutally. The public must not tolerate the fact that law enforcement officers in Xinjiang failed to acknowledge that their behaviour had been barbaric. Just two weeks after the attack on the Hong Kong journalists, a group of Japanese journalists working on an assignment in a Beijing restaurant were assaulted. They were ordered to kneel on the ground, then beaten on their heads. Their laptops were destroyed. The uniformed police simply turned a blind eye to the incident.

The language and behaviour meted out to journalists reflect the degree of respect the Communist Party has for human rights. Moreover, such incidents indirectly reveal whether the country they occur in respects press freedom as well. I believe that verbal abuse and violation of the safety of journalists seldom occur in countries where this principle is upheld. But the leaders of many national and local governments fail to grasp the fact that the people have a right to know the truth. Journalists are merely fulfilling their duties, which are to monitor society, report the facts to the public, and respect the public's right to know. They are not spies, troublemakers, nor instigators of crime.

Such grave abuses of power by law enforcement officers are not only directed against non-resident journalists. Resident journalists are victims of their bullying too.

I have been a journalist for more than 20 years. I have never seen members of my profession requesting special status or treatment. ln fact, journalists simply want freedom of the press to be regarded as a core value in communities worldwide. We want to do our jobs, and report the plain truth to the public. How can the leaders of so many countries including Chinese

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A group of individuals gathered to discuss the recent school drugtesting scheme over a cup of coffee and homemade brownies on Friday, 9 October.

While recognising the severity of the drug-abuse problem among young people and welcoming government action, some participants were unable to foresee the potential benefits of the school drugfeqtino qehomc Despite its good intentions, a number of people are worried that the scheme fails to respect the rights of students. "lf students' decisions are respected, there will essentially be no problems with the scheme.

However, that is not the case. Students who refuse the test will be passed on to social workers forfollow up, and this will undoubtedly put pressure on them, and undermine their autonomy. Moreover, it is debatable whether the students will be pressured by their teachers to 'voluntarily'take the test," says Leo Yau. Tony Chau also has similar concerns, and he would like to see the

government ensure three things: The right to refuse to take the test, the right not to be discriminated against for not participating in the test, the right to the ownership of records concerning it and the right to give other people access to personal records.

On the other hand, some pariicipants found the government's efforts to tackle teenage drug abuse are simply going in the wrong direction.

Astrid Lam voiced her opposition, saying: "To take responsibility for our youngsters, we should choose education that inspires them, rather than 'voluntary'supervision that deters them."

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I therefore immediately thought about Amnesty when I made plans to work as an intern at a human rights NGO this summer. I must add that I deeply appreciate the summer internship opportunity that Al offered me. lt has been a wonderful experience, both in terms of the work I did and the people I met.

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This enabled me to use my creativity and potential fully, with few constraints. However, the best part of the internship was the amazing experience of working with such passionate people who share a common belief about building a better world. Although it has now ended, what I learned is going to benefit me for life.

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